Collections We Manage

Collection Sampler

The Peaches of Miami Beach, Florida. A vintage postcard from the KBL Family Collection.

From the KBL Family Collection.

From the KBL Family collection. Keith B. Lile, tail gunner with the 321st/445th cleaning the tail guns of a B-25.

From the KBL Family Collection. An unidentified airman, 1945.

The KBL Family Collection contains a wide array of images and ephemera from Keith B. Lile who served as a tail gunner with the 445th on Corsica and in Italy between 1943 and 45.

From the HSB Collection of vintage postcards, 1908.

Bomber Boys Exhibit Images

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The exhibit is grouped into the following sections: The Cache, The Combat, The Captains, The Crew, and The Camps. Each aspect of life in the European strategic bombing theater of World War II offers a unique clue to the life and times of the men who barely talked about their experiences after the war. All images included in “Bomber Boys” are from the KBL Family Collection, a secret cache of images found after the death of tail gunner Keith B. Lile in 1993.

All images used with the express permission of the KBL Family Collection.